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I. M. Esperto
3rd Jan 2002, 17:18
Virginia Raines has put together a most revealing and complex report on
events directly associated with the goings on in the
Afghanistan/Usbekistan/Turkmenistan/Pakistan region....and, it is all
tied
directly to Oil and Gas and competition between Oil Companies, an
Argentinian company named Bridas and American/British/Russian Oil
interests...

It seems that some 4-6 years back, the Bridas Co. of Argentina had locks
on
Oil Pipeline construction to retrieve the oil and gas from massive,
secret
reserves of Oil and Gas discovered in the former Soviet nations to the
north
of Afghanistan...
This became a competition between some major Oil companies with their
associated banks and led to some peculiar goings on related to the
Politics
in that entire region and over the past 5 or so years, to the total
destabilization of the entire region...Now, it has even brought Pakistan
and
India to nuclear confrontation...It probably will happen>

Yet, consider what Virginia has found and compiled that bring us from the
mid 1990's to today..And not just in those eastern regions, but to
Argentina....

Lo and behold, as Argentina was so determined to be the one to help the
Taliban get the Oil from those northern neighbors to a port in Pakistan,
that when she ran up against the Oil Cabal of the Rothschilds and the
Rockefellers....working in tandem, this time, but using the power of the
U.S. Defense department to blow their way into success- then Argentina
the
Oil upstart, needed to be shown the ropes..

The Brits also contributed, sending 25,000 troops on a phony exercise in
the
middle east, one month before combat operations began by the U.S. in the
region.

Now, could there be a tie-in between the most recent events in Argentina
and
the losses that their Bridas Oil company caused to happen to Unocal and
other companies that had been working to also get that Oil in those
northern
regions?

Most probably....In fact, most likely....as the IMF is simply a tool of
the
Banksters that own these Oil Companies....Rockefellers having been given
back Standard Oil by the Clinton Justice Department and the Rothschilds,
still the main controllerss of both British Petroleum and Royal Dutch
Shell..The IMF was used to collapse the Argentine economy and teach these
oil upstarts a lesson...(A related story has to do with Jews being sent
out
of Argentina as well-probably tied into this as well.)

When all of this is put together, one can readily see an association
between
money around the world and Oil..

Now, one can understand what alternative fuels, alternative power
sources,
improved engine carburation, etc, never manage to reach first base in
development...And if they do, something happens so that they are "picked
off" while yet on first base...despite the success and potential of the
"new" discoveries and their overall value to the world.

All of this is very much as Dr. Emmanuel Josephson has documented
earlier,
in several books that outline the basis of Power in the world and its
tie-in
to Oil...His book, "Rockefeller-Internationalists" is well worth locating
from a rare book source, as is his book on the Federal Reserve System.

Now, I suggest that interested news people and concerned citizens, read
the
attchments that Virginia has compiled to really learn what and why we are
so
involved in that dire region that really has no real attraction for us
other
then satisfying the needs of international Banksters and their Oil
Associates.....JRN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Virginia" <[email protected]>
To: "Virginia Raines" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 4:24 AM
Subject: A holiday


> [[Ah, my fellow Americans. Mine is not to question why, mine is but to
> ...
>
> search, search, and search again. I'm not the first word or the last
> word, but I do a fair job on the middling word. I got a tip the other
> day to investigate Argentine pipeline deals as the background to
today's
> crisis there. The originator of the tip had a different idea about
> which company was important, and why. What I remembered was the old W.
> tactics -- back when he was still the bumbling business failure
> son-of-a-politician-to-be-reckoned-with. I think my instincts were
> right.
>
> So, without trying to quote interminably from the following articles, I
> promise -- these are just some quick tidbits -- there is altogether
> quite a meal. Although it took me a number of hours to put together,
> anyone can take the material here and quickly follow up on his or her
> favored theory and make some good menus of the vultures. That would be
> delightful. The more the merrier. Jump on board the Afghan express.
> The trip started a long time ago.]]
>
>
> Argentina: Menem Under Arrest
&gt; <a href="http://www.worldpress.org/regions/americas/0801argentina.htm" target="_blank">http://www.worldpress.org/regions/americas/0801argentina.htm</a>
&gt;
&gt; Don't Cry for Bush, Argentina
&gt; <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA00/argentina.html" target="_blank">http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA00/argentina.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; Bush Friend Arrested for Illegal Arms Trafficking (June 7, 2001)
&gt; <a href="http://www.thegully.com/essays/argentina/010607bush_menem.html" target="_blank">http://www.thegully.com/essays/argentina/010607bush_menem.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; 'You will always be my friend' Bush Sr sends Menem e-mail
&gt;
<a href="http://www.buenosairesherald.com/1_argentina/2_argentina/0106/0106-16.ht" target="_blank">http://www.buenosairesherald.com/1_argentina/2_argentina/0106/0106-16.ht</a>
&gt; m
&gt;
&gt; Arms Charge for former president
&gt; <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2001/07/06/FFX2K8XEROC.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2001/07/06/FFX2K8XEROC.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; Citibank Laundered Money
&gt; <a href="http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010304_citibank_laundered_money.asp" target="_blank">http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010304_citibank_laundered_money.asp</a>
&gt;
&gt; Don't cry for me
&gt; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,530456,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,530456,00.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; U.S. Admits Turning Blind Eye to Allied Arms Shipments [[English
&gt; portion]]
&gt; <a href="http://www.seprin.com/Armas-usa.htm" target="_blank">http://www.seprin.com/Armas-usa.htm</a>
&gt;
&gt; Mysterious Case of the Arms Smuggled to Croatia
&gt; <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/01/13952.html" target="_blank">http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/01/13952.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; Is the Honeymoon over for Menem?
&gt; <a href="http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2001/0623/fea2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2001/0623/fea2.htm</a>
&gt;
&gt; The Ruins Tony Blair Should Visit
&gt; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,533647,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,533647,00.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; [[Only one small mention of the Enron Argentine deal, but great
&gt; background here -- even if it's only a very small amount of all the
&gt; dirt]]
&gt; What Fertlized the Bushes?
&gt; <a href="http://bushfiles.com/bushfiles/fertilize_bushes.html" target="_blank">http://bushfiles.com/bushfiles/fertilize_bushes.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; [[Not much more here, very short, but does mention that Kenneth Lay
&gt; worked in the Pentagon for the Nixon administration.]]
&gt; <a href="http://www.conspiracydigest.com/powerscam5.html" target="_blank">http://www.conspiracydigest.com/powerscam5.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; [[From an environmental org. Note that Enron was granted a
retroactive
&gt; regulatory exemption back to 1974. And almost got exempted from fraud
&gt; retroactively as well. This is where Wendy Gramm had come in handy.]]
&gt; Enron: The Global Gospel of Gas
&gt; <a href="http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/motherlode/enron.html" target="_blank">http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/motherlode/enron.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; Multinational Bankrupt Enron: an example of colonization, greed, fraud,
&gt; corruption and greed
&gt;
<a href="http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis494/enro" target="_blank">http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis494/enro</a>
&gt; n.html
&gt;
&gt; Unocol, Bridas wooing Taliban for $4.5bn Pak gas pipeline
&gt; <a href="http://www.expressindia.com/fe/daily/19970602/15355423.html" target="_blank">http://www.expressindia.com/fe/daily/19970602/15355423.html</a>
&gt;
&gt; Pipeline Dreams one of the factors which led to throwing Ms Benazir
&gt; Bhutto out of power
&gt; <a href="http://www.nowarcollective.com/pipeline.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nowarcollective.com/pipeline.htm</a>
&gt;
&gt; Global Data Communications
&gt; ??? [[I did not find out anything as to how this company was involved
&gt; in pipeline deals, as mentioned above.]]
&gt;
&gt; Amoco and Bridas Form New Energy Enterprise in South America; Amoco
&gt; Bolivia Involved in Deal
&gt; <a href="http://emb-eeuu.mrecic.gov.ar/news910.htm" target="_blank">http://emb-eeuu.mrecic.gov.ar/news910.htm</a>
&gt; [[notice the Soros-related material - let's see, have any other
&gt; countries that Soros got into had economic or other difficulties??
&gt; duh!]]
&gt;
&gt; Argentina -- local beauty and foreign money
&gt; <a href="http://csf.colorado.edu/debt/arg/highlights/" target="_blank">http://csf.colorado.edu/debt/arg/highlights/</a>
&gt;
&gt; [[And for real holiday-time bonus points, you will *not* be
disappointed
&gt; to venture through this potpourri:]]
&gt; DEC 22-25: A HOLIDAY BREAK IS IN ORDER (mediachannel.org)
&gt; <a href="http://www.thefileroom.org/weblog/dannylog2.cfm?start=6" target="_blank">http://www.thefileroom.org/weblog/dannylog2.cfm?start=6</a>
&gt;
&gt; Happy New Year. And thanks -- you're troopers one and all. I am more
&gt; encouraged now than ever before. More will be coming forth in the
&gt; future.
&gt;
&gt; Blessings and love,
&gt;
&gt; Virginia

BEagle
3rd Jan 2002, 17:30
NURSE - more medication needed for Senor Esperto...!!

X-QUORK
3rd Jan 2002, 18:48
Too rambling Mr Esperto, care to precis ?

Paterbrat
3rd Jan 2002, 20:34
No spurt but a veritable torrent, would try and plow through but havn't got a day to spare.

Sideshow Bob
3rd Jan 2002, 21:24
And I thought Stbd Beam had spent too long in the sun

[ 03 January 2002: Message edited by: Sideshow Bob ]</p>

I. M. Esperto
3rd Jan 2002, 21:25
I have been piecing together info gleaned from the internet on what smells of something wrong in the USA since 9-11.

This thread is but the nose of a very large camel.

It's not going to leap out at you, but if anyone is really concerned about the role of the USA and the UK in world affairs, it's a start for those with the time and curiousity to ferret out what is the reality of the current situation in Afgahnistan.

Follow the money trail, and it leads to The White House, and possibly your parliment.

Bush and Cheney are both heavily involved in BIG oil.

EESDL
3rd Jan 2002, 21:50
'The Taliban'
by some poor geezer with a strange name, exposes it all nicely. The book is probably shorter than the original post!!

Banggearo
3rd Jan 2002, 22:00
EESDL

Cx your email <img src="cool.gif" border="0">

misterploppy
3rd Jan 2002, 23:09
Good Lord, 10 yards of conspiracy theory and not a single mention of freemasons, knights templar, Bilderbergers, UFOs, black heli's or Men in Black.

Remember, though: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

Booger
4th Jan 2002, 02:24
Yes.. Yes... I see it all so clearly now!!!

Senor Esperto is so right. This theory backs up my belief that Kentucky Fried Chicken have been placing an addictive chemical in their chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly... and the letters K-F-C have hidden meaning, think about it:

"Killer Foreign Crusaders"

Oh my God, how deep does this go?????

<img src="eek.gif" border="0">

[ 03 January 2002: Message edited by: Booger ]</p>

Sven Sixtoo
4th Jan 2002, 03:18
After 25 years government service, I know Mr Esperwhatsit must be wrong.

I live with incompetence evey day.

Global conspiracy requires;

Intellectual ability
good intel
politicians who can agree with each other and keep their mouths shut about it.

Sorry, I prefer the cockup theory to the conspiracy every time. <img src="frown.gif" border="0">

I. M. Esperto
4th Jan 2002, 03:31
Not a single intelligent reply, just silly inuendo's. typical.
I like this better:
9/11 Conspiracy

In June, we announced a plan to remove the Taliban:
<a href="http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10&mp;ctg=policy" target="_blank">http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10&mp;ctg=policy</a>

Alleged hijackers trained by USA:
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp</a>

More Government Involvement:
<a href="http://www.copvcia.com/stories/nov_2001/lucy.html" target="_blank">http://www.copvcia.com/stories/nov_2001/lucy.html</a>

The insider trading profits made off the tragedy now may lead to an
investment house chaired by the #3 man at the CIA. Is this why it was
DROPPED by the media when they realized it wasn't Arab Terrorists who played
the stock. <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html" target="_blank">http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html</a>

Info confirmed by Independent Newspaper in UK: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99402" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99402</a>

· ABC News.com's May, 2001 story exposes recently released documents that
showed the US Joint Chiefs of Staff actually planned to foment domestic
terrorism to whip Americans into a pro-war frenzy. This was in the 60's but
it shows that the highest echelons of our govt. have actually considered
terrorizing their own people for political gain.
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html</a>

* The French Newspaper, Le Figaro reports the CIA met with Bin Laden in
Dubai, in July 2002, only 2 months before the
9-11 horror. A German translation of this report can be found at:
<a href="http://www.orf.at/orfon/011031-44569/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.orf.at/orfon/011031-44569/index.html</a>


More insider trading:
<a href="http://www.copvcia.com/stories/nov_2001/lucy.html" target="_blank">http://www.copvcia.com/stories/nov_2001/lucy.html</a>


FEMA in position on 10 Sept:
<a href="http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=14109" target="_blank">http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=14109</a>

<a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/FEMA.htm" target="_blank">http://www.halturnershow.com/FEMA.htm</a>

More Insider Trading:
<a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/CIAMoneyTrail9-11.htm" target="_blank">http://www.halturnershow.com/CIAMoneyTrail9-11.htm</a>

Reservists to the School of Urban Control:
<a href="http://www.almartinraw.com/column37.html" target="_blank">http://www.almartinraw.com/column37.html</a>

LONDON (September 17) - Mossad officials traveled to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to
200 terrorists was planning a major operation, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph here yesterday.

The paper said the Israeli officials specifically warned their counterparts in Washington that "large-scale terrorist attacks on highly
visible targets on the American mainland were imminent."

And then there was this;

Odigo says workers were warned of attack
By Yuval Dror

Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers
attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and
American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.

Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror
attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in
the FBI.

...Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in Herzliya.

© Copyright Ha`aretz. All rights reserved


Bush took FBI Agents off bin Laden family

<a href="http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305" target="_blank">http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305</a>

solotk
4th Jan 2002, 06:45
Oh Christ, well it was bound to happen eventually. While your checking on conspiracy theories, why not examine the one, that 9/11 was actually a revenge attack, For George Snr "dicking" Old Man Bin _laden out of a large contract? I believe that one's been trotted out too.

Face facts, Osamam doesn't like the US, and he just acted. So now unfortunately, we're all sitting here, wondering who we are going to have to slap next.

Tony

I. M. Esperto
7th Jan 2002, 17:17
A real loooong look at the events of 9/11:
<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com" target="_blank">http://www.whatreallyhappened.com</a>

Whipping Boy's SATCO
7th Jan 2002, 21:11
VIRUS alert. Warning, a new virus has just been discovered by sofware manufacturers. Dubbed the Esperto Virus, it manifests itself by producing reams of pointless bulls***. Be very careful, any attempt to irradicate will result in an exponential increase in messages.

[ 07 January 2002: Message edited by: Whipping Boy's SATCO ]</p>

Skylark4
7th Jan 2002, 22:38
I.M.Esperto
You have missed out a vital connection which blows your whole argument out of the water. You have made NO mention of Nostradamus.
Fatal flaw, sorry.

Mike W

UAM
7th Jan 2002, 22:50
Hate to spoil your party by pointing this out Esperto, but the fact that lockhhed were well ahead of the game in the JSF contract, Versus boeing. The fact that some CIA wiseguy bought shares in Lockheed and sold short in Boeing just prior to Sept. 11th proves jack all. I did the same, im sure it would have raised one or two eyebrows after Sept 11th.

I. M. Esperto
8th Jan 2002, 14:06
I opened the same thread on a few USA Forums.

No snotty, disparaging remarks, but deep interest, and concern.

Read for yourselves:
<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/002030.html" target="_blank">http://www.newsmax.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/002030.html</a>
Since you're curious, here's some more. Since the Observer thinks I'm a subversive already, I won't
bother to comment.

"U.S. GOVERNMENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF EMERGENCY"

AMERICA'S REICHSTAG FIRE

The most massive so-called "terrorist" attacks on U.S. soil since the Oklahoma City bombings of 1995,
were known, a week ahead of time, by the American CIA. Among the foreign intelligence agencies who
penetrated the plots were the French CIA and Israel's The Mossad, units of both often working with one
another.

Foreign intelligence sources confirm the validity of this story. And they state that they informed the
U.S. secret police who absolutely failed, neglected, and outright refused to take action as to known
prior specifics of which the top-level of the CIA were informed in advance.

Continue here

The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man charged in
September 11 attacks
By Patrick Martin
5 January 2002

The case of Zacarias Moussaoui raises many questions about the conduct of the FBI and other US
intelligence agencies in the period leading up the September 11. It is the clearest example of the
almost inexplicable refusal on the part of these agencies to take any action that could have prevented
the bloodiest terrorist attack in American history.

Continue here
.

In Tor Wot
9th Jan 2002, 04:32
Whilst a perfunctory read of the various 'sources' give a prima facia case of conspiracy, linking numerous disparate threads into a coherent case requires a great deal more.

The veracity of source, intent to mislead, un-connected events linked by hindsight and lack of real detailed knowledge in the public domain about the Al Qa'ida group means that the analysis is so suspect as to be almost ridiculous. Two simple examples:

'Pre-positioning of UK troops in Oman by mid July.'

Saif Sareea had been planned for 2 years (believe it or not!) and the full exercise strength was not achieved until late September.

'17000 US and 23000 NATO troops pre-positioned in Egypt for Ex Bright Star in July.'

Again, Bright Star is an annual exercise, there'll be another one next year.

Trying to tie together non-related facts to make a conspiracy theory needs more than the occasional reporter saying that the CIA knew. On that basis the aliens have been here and are amongst us now, and Adolf Hitler is alive and well and living in Skegness.

Try this for a theory:

Osama Bin Laden, a religious zealot, was hired and then let down by the CIA during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. He became increasingly angry towards his former employers when they protected the Kingdom that had thrown him (Saudi Arabia) out by removing Iraq from Kuwait. His religious bigotry then viewed the 'infidels' continued presence in the land of the two Holy Mosques with increasing rage. Following a number of attacks, each increasing in intensity, he realises that the US (and the West in general) cannot/will not really retaliate to any great effect and decides to attack the US mainland in a 'spectacular' manner. At his instigation, his followers crash 4 passenger aircraft into the WTC, Pentagon and open farmland causing the deaths of more than 5000 people. The US and the West decide to act and attacked the vipers nest where it resided.

Conspiracy? Yes, I'd say that was quite a trail to follow. Stop reproducing such gibberish and use your own mind to think why the US/UK/EU/NATO/Russia/ASEAN/ALL Muslim countries (Iran included) have backed this campaign - and no, it is not oil.

DrSyn
9th Jan 2002, 09:12
In Tor Wot , spot-on! Conspiracy theorists have emerged in every decade that I have been around. Before the Internet, they produced magazines which sometimes achieved cult status, and even a few bob for their publishers, perish the thought!

Somewhere in the plethora of posts and links provided by I. M. Esperto dwell a few truths which, in time, will prove to be nailed down to nothing more than Sven Sixtoo's astute observation. It is a sad fact of life that most government "agencies" in the Free World (and the USA) have been operating as ever-increasingly constipated bureaucracies. They are loaded with "corporate" chiefs unable to make a decision for fear of offending their paymasters or the PC lobby.

As there has been so much publicity about the forewarnings from Mossad, etc, without public denial, there is a real probablility that a cock-up on the lines of Sven's theory will come to light after the final analysis. After all, they are still trying to blame one of the most unforgivable acts of military incompetence and negligence in modern history, Pearl Harbour, on a Presidential conspiracy to force the USA into WW2! A similarity may not be out of order with the WTC tragedy.

The real truth is that the system is only wonderful when portrayed in Hollywood movies. The real guys and gals on the line go out and pick up the pieces left behind by the incompetents.

Whatever Esperto's favoured authors, such as Ms Raines, are on, I would venture that it can only be obtained legally by doctor's prescription. Mind you, it also provides a pretty income when published in the media ---- nice work if you can get it!

BEagle
9th Jan 2002, 11:31
Just had a word with Elvis Presley - he agrees with Mr Spurto!

BAAAAAAAAAAAY

pana
9th Jan 2002, 13:10
It is very refreshing to see something different of CNN and other Goebells' reporting machines. And maybe more interesting to see reactions to that:
"Well, we have been told what the truth is and we don't want to accept the existance of any possibility that it was , maybe, a lie."
What is your next country? Hope, not mine again!
<img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

X-QUORK
9th Jan 2002, 16:38
Roll Roll,

From the tone of your post it sounds as if you prefer to believe anything other than CNN or BBC news reports ? I suppose 10 years of war in the Balkans was all a figment of the CNN news producer's imagination...filmed in a studio in Hollywood ? Let me guess, you've been watching the film "Wag the dog" where the USA stage manage the media to show reports of a fake war against Albania ?

Unlike your previous masters in Belgrade, democratic countries' leaders know only too well what happens if they start to meddle with the truth too much....remember Nixon ?

In Tor Wot's theory sounds the most plausible, because it is the most plausible.

Unlike Yugoslavia, most countries consider genocide to be a bit naughty - that's why I find it hard to believe the CIA organised or were complicit in the attacks on Sept 11th.

I. M. Esperto
9th Jan 2002, 18:24
ZAHN: Boy, if any of these charges are true...
Tue Jan 8 17:50:00 2002
<a href="http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=15737" target="_blank">http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=15737</a>

AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/08/ltm.05.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/08/ltm.05.html</a>

Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S.
Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban

Aired January 8, 2002 - 07:34 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL
FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

============================================================ =====

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check in with ambassador-in- residence,
Richard Butler, this morning. An explosive new book published in France
alleges that the United States was in negotiations to do a deal with the
Taliban for an oil pipeline in Afghanistan.

Joining us right now is Richard Butler to shed some light on this new
book. He is the former chief U.N. weapons inspector. He is now on the
Council on Foreign Relations and our own ambassador-in- residence --
good morning.

RICHARD BUTLER, FMR. U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTOR: Good
morning, Paula.

ZAHN: Boy, if any of these charges are true...

BUTLER: If...

ZAHN: ... this...

BUTLER: Yes.

ZAHN: ... is really big news.

BUTLER: I agree.

ZAHN: Start off with what your understanding is of what is in this book
-- the most explosive charge.

BUTLER: The most explosive charge, Paula, is that the Bush
administration -- the present one, just shortly after assuming office
slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan
in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline across
Afghanistan.

ZAHN: And this book points out that the FBI's deputy director, John
O'Neill, actually resigned because he felt the U.S. administration was
obstructing...

BUTLER: A proper...

ZAHN: ... the prosecution of terrorism.

BUTLER: Yes, yes, a proper intelligence investigation of terrorism. Now,
you said if, and I affirmed that in responding to you. We have to be
careful here. These are allegations. They're worth airing and talking
about, because of their gravity. We don't know if they are correct. But
I believe they should be investigated, because Central Asian oil, as we
were discussing yesterday, is potentially so important. And all prior
attempts to have a pipeline had to be done through Russia. It had to be
negotiated with Russia.

Now, if there is to be a pipeline through Afghanistan, obviating the
need to deal with Russia, it would also cost less than half of what a
pipeline through Russia would cost. So financially and politically,
there's a big prize to be had. A pipeline through Afghanistan down to
the Pakistan coast would bring out that Central Asian oil easier and
more cheaply.

ZAHN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as you spoke about this yesterday, we almost
immediately got a call from "The New York Times."

BUTLER: Right.

ZAHN: They want you to write an op-ed piece on this over the weekend.

BUTLER: Right, and which I will do.

ZAHN: But let's come back to this whole issue of what John O'Neill, this
FBI agent...

BUTLER: Right.

ZAHN: ... apparently told the authors of this book. He is alleging that
-- what -- the U.S. government was trying to protect U.S. oil interests?
And at the same time, shut off the investigation of terrorism to allow
for that to happen?

BUTLER: That's the allegation that instead of prosecuting properly an
investigation of terrorism, which has its home in Afghanistan as we now
know, or one of its main homes, that was shut down or slowed down in
order to pursue oil interests with the Taliban. The people who we have
now bombed out of existence, and this not many months ago. The book says
that the negotiators said to the Taliban, you have a choice. You have a
carpet of gold, meaning an oil deal, or a carpet of bombs. That's what
the book alleges.

ZAHN: Well, I know you're going to be doing your own independent
homework on this...

BUTLER: Yes.

ZAHN: ... to see if you can confirm any of this. Let's move on to the
whole issue of Iraq. The deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, at
one time was considered one of those voices within the administration...

BUTLER: Yes.

ZAHN: ... that was pushing for moving beyond Afghanistan. He seemed to
back off a little from that yesterday.

BUTLER: Yes.

ZAHN: What do you read through the tea leaves here?

BUTLER: A very interesting report that the administration will focus on
the Philippines, Yemen, Somalia as places where there are al Qaeda
cells. But the word Iraq wasn't used by the man who was the chief hawk
-- used as a, you know, as a future target. So what I interpret from
that is this: That very likely our allies have been saying to us, this
is too hard. This is
really serious. Be careful. Saddam is essentially contained at the
moment.
Don't start, you know, a bigger problem either in the Arab world or in
the coalition by going after him. And Wolfowitz, it seems, has probably
accepted that.

ZAHN: A quick thought on the Israelis intercepting this latest armed
shipment? What that means? You've got to do it in about 15 seconds.

BUTLER: It's extraordinarily serious, because it seems to have been tied
to Yasser Arafat himself. It needs to be further investigated, but you
know, Paula, the potentiality that this could once again prove an
impediment to resume peace negotiations is really quite serious.

ZAHN: Thank you as usual for covering so much territory. Richard Butler,
see you same time, same place tomorrow morning.

BUTLER: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

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Archimedes
10th Jan 2002, 00:31
I'm sorry, I.M.E, but this is getting on my nerves. I've clicked onto a number of the links you give. Convinced me? No - just the opposite. Why? Here's a quick assessment of some of the sources:

In June, we announced a plan to remove the Taliban: <a href="http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10&mp;ctg=policy" target="_blank">http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10&mp;ctg=policy</a>
.The report cited here isn't about conspiracy theories; quick summary: the Taliban represent[ed] a threat to the US (terrorism), Russia (ditto); the Central Asian states (perceiving a threat to their territorial integrity & their oilfields); India (Afghan trained mercenaries in Kashmir). Further quick summary: everyone in the region is/was worried by the Taliban, they wouldn't negotiate, so it might have been necessary to do something about them militarily - which is what happened, if not in the fashion anticipated.


Alleged hijackers trained by USA:
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp</a>

Looks an exciting set of revelations, but notes that hijackers may have used false names, and in fact peters out into a mish-mash of might haves, could haves, etc.

FEMA in position on 10 Sept:
<a href="http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=14109" target="_blank">http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=14109</a>

A posting followed up by another pointing out that the 'revelation' was a slip of the tongue, made by a man who'd been awake for 48 hours straight, and who corrected the mistake.

<a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/FEMA.htm" target="_blank">http://www.halturnershow.com/FEMA.htm</a>

From a radio DJ who proudly claims to aim at a 'Straight, White American audience'. Regarded in many circles as slightly biased, then... Report made up of assertion and innuendo and no original hard evidence

Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and
American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.

Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in
the FBI.

This isn't foreknowledge, but reaction. The workers who got the message two hours before the attack probably thought 'nutter!' and got on with their work. Read it more carefully: the information reached the Israeli security services after the attack, they then contacted the Americans, so the Americans learned of the message only afterwards

A real loooong look at the events of 9/11:
<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com" target="_blank">http://www.whatreallyhappened.com</a>

I do hope the author of that website's paranoia clears up soon. Once again lacking that crucial thing called hard evidence. Please note, I.M.E that there is a difference between assertion and hard evidence. One is unreliable, the other reasonably reliable.

The most massive so-called "terrorist" attacks on U.S. soil since the Oklahoma City bombings of 1995, were known, a week ahead of time, by the American CIA. Among the foreign intelligence agencies who penetrated the plots were the French CIA and Israel's The Mossad, units of both often working with one another.

This would be the same Mossad who knew about Mr Exploding Shoes and forgot to tell the French and US services?

Foreign intelligence sources confirm the validity of this story.

Really? Where's the evidence? Anyone from these services prepared to be quoted? Until there's evidence, it's assertion.

And they state that they informed the U.S. secret police who absolutely failed, neglected, and outright refused to take action as to known prior specifics of which the top-level of the CIA were informed in advance.

Ditto about evidence. And the US 'Secret Police' :wouldn't be an agenda there, then would there??

Also, while we're about it, remember that OBL has disowned/been disowned by his family, so doing business with the legitimate wing of the family (if I can use that term) doesn't quite equate to doing business with OBL himself.

And as for the oil pipeline, the other side to the argument is quite a simple one: the US, rather than launching military action against the Taliban (for which they would have been slaughtered in the press), tried to use diplomacy – untold wealth for the Taliban and the implication that they wouldn't interfere in Afghanistan if the Taliban behaved themselves. The Taliban didn't and got the carpet of bombs not gold. Also, blowing the you-know-what out of Afghanistan would presumably delay getting in to put down a pipeline, not expedite matters

From I.M.E's first posting:
'Although it took me a number of hours to put together, anyone can take the material here and quickly follow up on his or her favored theory and make some good menus of the vultures.'

I'd call that incitement to bull$hit; Look at the stories and put them together in your own DIY conspiracy theory is what we're being told.


Can we either have some hard evidence or an end to the insulting of our collective intelligence, please?

Rant Off; sorry about the length
[Edited for spoooling]

[ 09 January 2002: Message edited by: Archimedes ]</p>

pana
10th Jan 2002, 01:54
X-QUORK, don't you think that you underestimate me a little?
Of course that we had a war here! (Actually, we had The War! I don't want to anybody of you to taste such experience.)
The question is: how journalists, reporters and news agencies managed all of that?
Well, they created bad guys and good guys. How? They got a wink from leading political establishment who is good and who is bad (and money from good guys, I would add), and started to create image for average TV watcher-election voter.
One of the results: after the end of bombing of Bosnian Serb's forces, a very tiny and carefully hidden report appeared in your newspapers: team consisted of three independent ballistics expert (one Polish, one Canadian and... sorry, forgott the third) gave the conclusion that under no circumstances that mortar shell at the marketplace Markale in the center of Sarajevo, couldn't come from Serb's positions at that moment. The story was unofficially confirmed by members of UN Airfield Monitor Team in Podgorica, 1995, who were well informed because one of them had just came from Sarajevo.
Another one (something between the rumours and official): destruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar was ordered from French TV team and commited by Croatian forces.
These were the most extreme constructions as far as I knew.
But, you may speak the truth and, at the same time , to lie. How? Simple: to say that somebody was attacked and killed by somebody's forces and not to say about previous events which were a key to understand. That was the most common way of CNN reportings during Balcan wars (except the last one, when you killed YU's TV, leaving ,again, CNN's truth as the only and unique truth).
It can be seen, that reporting agencies do not only reporting, we could see that they are creating a little. Beside some events, they are creating the public opinion for possible (and probable) actions. I can see that I am dangerously close to the line of your "conspiracy theory". But, where is the line?
The line is , maybe, to not accept everything without critism (for example, as you obviously accepted those charges for genocide, without sentence, and, as I've been informed, nobody's guilty, unless opposite is proven).
So, if you see strategic geopolitical interests, you are at the right place. Afghanistan: poor, undeveloped country, you can be real sheriffs there. Oh, I forgott...very close to Russia and Far East. Well, you are in very tight hug now. Dance can begin. The music have already started.
And, by the Coincidence, you even don't have to produce bad guys. They are evident, in any country, at any place in the world. You just have to point the finger and attack.
At the end, don't tell me that you can believe that anyone can base his attitude on Hollywood production's movies! Or, you may say what is your favourite movie, at which is your attitude based on? Rambo I, II, III? :)

I. M. Esperto
10th Jan 2002, 03:01
It gets curiouser and curiouser.

Cooperman
11th Jan 2002, 07:06
lol :)

I. M. Esperto
11th Jan 2002, 21:57
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Very curious.

Subject: Making the world safe for the Texas oil barons

These two blasts from the past beg the question of why it is that 'terrorists' always seem to seek refuge in areas of
the world with vast, untapped oil reserves. One comes courtesy of the BBC, the other from the Los Angeles Times.
The originals are at:
<a href="http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/west_asia/newsid_37000/37021.stm" target="_blank">http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/west_asia/newsid_37000/37021.stm</a>

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